In this series, I explore some of the very modern worship songs as an old guy 😀.
Select the arrow for my “general intro” (which I’m reusing for all the modern hymns that I explore)
I grew up with rock music, so it’s not such a shocking thing for me to explore these. Back in my earlier years as a Christian, we had the old hymns and some modern choruses that originated in the 1970s charismatic movement. As time went on, I started to prefer the older hymns.
Nowadays, I try to maintain an interest in all Christian music. It’s easy to find “trendy” Christian music annoying, even as a Christian 😀. I don’t know why. But I’m trying to overcome that prejudice. Perhaps the older hymns give us a sense of history, but many of these would have been similar to popular music of their day. So maybe people cringed when they first heard some of these too 😀.
Anyway, today’s hymn is Forever. It’s from 2014.
The song is inspired by John’s vision in Revelation 5:13, focusing on Jesus being glorified “forever and ever”
Revelation 5:14
13 Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them, saying:
“To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb
be praise and honor and glory and power,
for ever and ever!”
For many, the book of Revelation is a book of puzzles about the future. For me, it’s always been primarily a devotional book. I do remember seeing the movie “The Late Great Planet Earth” shortly before I became a Christian, but I didn’t really think much of it. I was more impressed by a chat that I had with an evangelical Christian outside the cinema (Palace cinema in Cork). His fellowship were using it as an opportunity for evangelism. Over the years, I’ve read many theological viewpoints about the future, but I’m happy to wait and see. One thing that is certain is that Jesus is coming back.
But much of the focus of Forever is on the past. Its theme centres on the crucifixion, burial, and resurrection of Jesus.
The ground began to shake
The stone was rolled away
His perfect love could not be overcome
Now death where is your sting
So, what occurred on Calvary secures our future.
Here are some other interesting versions/videos of the song:
Hibernia Gospel 
🙏Beautiful 💕
Loved the videos and the songs where beautiful 😇🙏😆
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Thank you for raising the idea of music/worship music. I remember the old tunes and compare and contrast this to modern music…ummmm…I’m usually critical of modern tunes although I do try to keep an open mind about things.
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Thanks for your comment. Way back around 1990, I started preferring the old hymns. and I steered clear of anything modern. Then, around 2017, I started checking out some of the 1990s songs in my Mission Praise hymn book, and I developed a taste for them. I’ve only recently got into the 21st Century stuff, and it’s taken me a while. I still love the old hymns and the old “new” songs that were popular when I first became a Christian in the early 1980s. The way I see it is if I moved to Africa, I’d like to think that I wouldn’t just hang around with Irish or British people and steer clear of African music. So, now that somehow or other, I find myself in the 21st century, I’m trying to adjust. It’s tough work but I’m getting there 😊. But I generally live in the 20th century.
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